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The Bully of Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 1, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Bully of Fort Nisqually

There is another brigade trail which I keep forgetting to mention: of course, until recently I did not know a lot about it. In fact I was quite surprised, only…

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South of Fort Colvile, on the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 17, 2016 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
South of Fort Colvile, on the Columbia River

This post is the twenty first leg of the York Factory Express journey, and we are “falling down” the Columbia River south of Fort Colvile. The gentlemen who were keeping…

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The Grande Dalles in the NWC’s Long Narrows

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 10, 2016 Fur Trade History, York Factory Express
The Grande Dalles in the NWC’s Long Narrows

The Long Narrows of the North West Company was a “five mile stretch of fast water 194 river miles from Fort George,” or Astoria, their then headquarters on the Pacific…

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The incoming Brigades pass through the Cascade Mountains

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 4, 2016 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
The incoming Brigades pass through the Cascade Mountains

The two brigades leaving Fort Vancouver for the interior have had different experiences at Portage Neuf, a cluster of islands and rapids upriver from Fort Vancouver, and a few miles…

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James Birnie and the 1826 York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 30, 2016 James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet, York Factory Express
James Birnie and the 1826 York Factory Express

We, who are descendants of James Birnie of Spokane House and Fort Vancouver, have known he went out in the 1826 York Factory Express to Hudson Bay. What we did…

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